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It's a picture of two half-human-half-dogs fighting over a beetle with the sun above it and a hollow spherical device with holes punched in its bottom half, filled with water, below it. Possibly watering a garden. Or at least that's what it looks like to me.

Why do you ask? How is this going to result in a fight, other than the fight between the two dogs?

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It's a picture of two half-human-half-dogs fighting over a beetle with the sun above it and a hollow spherical device with holes punched in its bottom half, filled with water, below it. Possibly watering a garden. Or at least that's what it looks like to me.

Why do you ask? How is this going to result in a fight, other than the fight between the two dogs?

First let me tell you about a great tool called TinEye, a reverse image search that allows you to find where the image is located.

Ok.. so i think it's curious. The overall impression I get is two baboons squabbling (fighting or mixing it up) over something. But I guess what I was asking is what impression do other people get?

The relief is on display at the Met in the Ptolemies section and from around 400 BC so possibly pre-Alexander. It's a teaching of how things work and what things are Each hand of both baboons is touching a circle and between them is a beetle and two eyes. This may not make absolute sense to anyone not familiar with Egyptian art but I think it does give an idea..

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

Yes. I should have included a link but that skipped my mind. Another thing I forgot to mention and found interesting is your thought on the watering idea which I was seeing as light rays (bits) but either way seems to be the result..

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain